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week notes 17 23 march 2025 neil williams skip to the content neil williams if i remember correctly blog life log articles scrapbook about what i m doing now blogroll bluesky instagram threads linkedin blog life log articles scrapbook about what i m doing now blogroll search bluesky instagram threads linkedin search for search for week notes 17 23 march 2025 service orientation narrative cruise news small parts march 23 2025 in life log these notes are a tool i use for reflecting remembering because i can t networking and public accountability read more here work stuff first mission impossible there s a complex story i m puzzling over how best to tell that s the main thing i m doing at the moment and for the next couple of weeks it s partly a story of here are some strategic and systemic problems we keep hitting up against in digital that are actually bad for everyone and we need to collectively understand and solve for any meaningful change to happen here and partly here s a clear vision of the future which not only solves those problems but is exciting and necessary for us to be cost effective adaptable and relevant for years to come but also it ll take policy change and enforcement better definition and agreement of priorities and goals and changes to how we organise teams and manage work it s ultimately about an inflection point we ve now reached where we have to move from a somewhat trojan horse tail wagging the dog maverick approach to applying service design thinking and tech standards to making that fully mainstream explicit and paramount we can t digitally transform our services without digitally transforming our organisation and there s a no man s land of systems that sits between digital services for the public and corporate it services for staff re orienting around end to end services is the only way to manage and kaizen it all so my plan is to tell it as a positive story of our digital and tech work having reached a level of maturity now to go to this next level we re standing at the edge of a digital first tomorrow and we can see huge opportunities to unlock game changing improvements to org wide operations and impact it ll take a cocktail of clear collateral to communicate these complex ideas simply and make them grounded and relevant it s a somewhat risky business with pitfalls of coming across too abstract or technical being misread as empire building treading on toes and so on so my head is quite full and my brow is quite furrowed at the moment but i m not doing it alone i have a few good men and women with incredible brains and domain knowledge at my disposal and i had some breakthroughs this week on possible story beats diagram concepts and so on it s feeling a bit less impossible than it was last week we re making all the right moves but definitely a puzzle other than that this week involved bfi flare opening night i love this festival it s so joyous meetings and rapid work on a spending review commission from dcms drafting up some initial objectives for our incoming head of cyber security further chats about dashboard reporting for bfi player a round of useful 1 1s reviewing various documents etc oh yeah and there was that announcement about tom cruise s bfi fellowship and cinema season which i m a bit excited about as you might have already spotted unless you have your eyes wide shut if you want to play along there are 9 tc film titles shoe horned into this post so far my tc top 5 thanks for asking collateral edge of tomorrow risky business jerry maguire interview with the vampire yours not work ran 7k outside good to be back out there now to fix my serious revels and mikado habit had two unrelated expensive plumbing emergencies this weekend grr i ve been arranging work experience for dylan at croydon and the bfi thanks to the generosity of current and former colleagues joel s finished his two plays now and the final performance was excellent iirc joel s theatre productions prompted me to think about my own childhood appearances on stage as a memory challenge versus the sdam to reiterate i can t remotely go there in my head or anything like that but i have these few facts committed to memory i was offered the lead i e dylan thomas in a child s christmas in wales but didn t want it may have cried so ended up being an uncle a small part instead possibly a pervy uncle pretty sure the child i e same aged peer whose christmas it was in wales sat on my lap insert joke here about a small part i also had a small part in the thwarting of baron bolligrew which has something to do with knights and dragons i left my prop on stage a large papier maché tail of some dragon my character had vanquished and it mucked up the subsequent scene i loved being part of these productions the magic of backstage and post show afterglow or this may have been when i was asked to captain the bottom tier rugby team i didn t even want to watch rugby let alone play it competitively in a leadership position the sports teacher was baffled by this high honour being declined and made me do it anyway this is the same teacher who also wrote on my report in a prior year neil is not yet ready for a body contact sport reader i was and am still not ready browser tabs idea prioritization with ice and the confidence meter via matt lemay s book why you should stop using product roadmaps and try the gist framework via above developing service patterns reusable designs for building government services and the prototype apply service pattern this seems hella useful to me to help teams design and operate services holistically agile organisational design in practice week 28 and this zettelkasten atomic note taking method and learn the method here ai playbook for charities product roadmap do s and don ts leading through a cyber attack learning from crisis the last paragraph of matt edgar s weeknote blackpool pleasure beach losses rise to 2 8m meanwhile i am well excited about a new universal studios theme park near bedford expected by 2030 audiovisual and culinary consumption the wedding banquet 2025 heartwarming crowd pleaser with fun q a including bowen yang and lily gladstone at bfi flare opening night take shelter on bfi player a well acted psychological thriller on mental illness rush hour a nostalgic rewatch and the kids first jackie chan i know not the best anatomy of lies and scamanda both jaw dropping shout at the telly fodder about people faking cancer for clout and coins the big fat quiz of everything 2025 recorded at christmas finally watched haven t laughed this hard in ages mostly thanks to harry hill and david mitchell who both really brought it for this one hypercube an excellent new tune from nathan fake first new tune from venetian snares in 11 years everything kelly lee owens recommends here finished reading matt lemay s impact first product teams strongly recommend it s a rallying call to focus on impact over product methodology nirvana working my way through jamie oliver s air fryer book so far two recipes with a sub optimal ratio of effort to tastiness scruffy butternut squash lasagne and prosciutto baked fish and garlicky beans distractions styscraper browser game linkedin s new daily puzzle zip the html review the bit at the end i m away in nottingham for board games with besties on friday can t wait so i ll skip a week and post again in a fortnight have a good 2 weeks i hope it doesn t rain man please leave this field empty get an occasional email reminding you this blog exists check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription fortnight notes 3 16 march 2025 fortnight notes 24 march 6 april 2025 leave a reply cancel reply comment name email website save my name email and website in this browser for the next time i comment send me occasional emails when there s new stuff on this blog δ related posts monthnotes november 2025 the year i ll turn 50 weeknotes 20 jan 2026 week notes 8 14 july 2024 week notes 13 19 may 2024 2026 neil 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